Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Remember when Eve hadn't been ruined by supercapitals?
Remember when nullsec regions only had 3 conquerable stations if you were lucky?
Remember when nullsec was called 0.0 (zero-zero)?

Well I do remember, and I may be looking back at my early days in Nullsec through rose-tinted glasses, but I miss those simple times.

I'd like to create a completely new starcluster in Eve where some of the old rules of 0.0 can be revived to facilitate small to mid scale territorial conflict. A land without supercap blobs, without 56 station timers to grind through to capture a region (I'm looking at you CVA), a land without massive power blocs taking 2 regions in 18 days with no credible resistance.

I enjoyed my time in Huzzah Federation in 2006. Brawling with Firmus Ixion in Western Catch, later hoping that Lotka Volteera would come and help us when the BoB war machine inevitably trundled up our driveway... Ah, Memories. A simpler time, before power blocs like Goonswarm and TEST BoB ruined small conflicts among small alliances, before supercap blobs ruined the game for everyone and made it impossible for smaller entities to take space in nullsec.

In games and real life, when things get bad there's always a set of people who want to find greener pastures elsewhere rather than trying to fix the deep rooted problems they find where they are. Currently people have to look for another game, but we should make it so they don't need to, there should be a greener pasture within Eve. Nullsec is quite broken, and Wormholes are hard to live in and you're logisticaly dependant on New Eden's resources. There needs to be something in the middle where players can be self sufficient.

I propose a new starcluster in Eve, separate from New Eden and Wormhole space:

• A cluster of similar size to New Eden
• 100% nullsec.
• Conquerable stations scattered around
• No buildable outposts
• No jumpbridges
• No supercaps (maybe even no capitals or cynos at all?).
• Ihub upgradable starsystems would be okay.
• Accessible only via unstable wormholes (to hopefully negate the blobbing power of current nullsec superpowers)
• Allow ice and moon mining to promote self-sufficiency (unlike W-space)

Development time and cost? - The New Eden cluster map looks like the result of a crack spider orgy because it was randomly generated back when CCP consisted of 5 guys. I'm sure they can randomly generate another one.

Server resources needed to track an entirely new cluster of starsystems? - I don't know, but I'm not exactly asking for this to be implemented this winter, it could be planned for.

What about the canonical explanation for having conquerable stations in a hitherto undiscovered cluster, and tying it in with the existing lore? - IDGAF, make something up.

Hypocrite much?

Sweet Baby Jesus add another 5000 systems?! Do you actually want to see another human being again...?

I bet he's a miner!

On a serious note, there was sometime ago a suggestion of creating systems that were reachable through wormhole space only. In small scale these kind of regions or systems would propably be fun, but on top of that there'd really need to be a lot of entry points from wormhole space, and the regions/systems would really need to be easily maneuverable rather than eaasily defendable.

Even tho I have yet to experience a lot of 0.0 I agree with the poster. I would like to add that what if every expansion ccp added fifty systems that are not on the map, and keeping with eve lore we players of eve could go out and anchor our own star gates there could be new classes of ships for this. Frigate sized deep space exploration ships, that would have jump driver to be able to jump out and set a beckon for something like a orca or roq to then jump out and set up a POS which could then be turned into a star gate once a proper gravity well is found. I also think this would need to take a while,maybe like a month? And only once star gate is set up could the system be named and show up. On the mini map

more nulsec..

yes please

balance its contents properly this time please

Im not sure that is the right answer but it is an answer. I think more space IS a good idea, but as you say it needs somethign to offer to smaller groups that may also deter teh larger blocs to some degree.

What I proposed, quite a while ago now... Is that some new regions are created, but make them unusual, islands of hisec in te hmiddle of lowsec, islands of lowsec in teh middle of hisec, maybe even a small section of nullsec right in the middle of a lowsec area, unusual things.

But also... Some nullsec regions that are out of jump range from ANY other null or lowsec regions, but to add some extra unusual features, say somethign liek deadspace where cyno's dont light, cyno beacons dont work, storyline can be used to explain why these phenomena happen. Hav eregions of lowsec and nullsec where this is the case. The idea of some lost nullsec space, WAY out of range of everything hat can be reached by wormholes.

Where are those explosive/corrosive gas clouds that could hide a pirate NPC station? Where are the black market dens?

There is nothign wrong with the way the nullsec superpowers play, but there should be other options for peopel who dont want that size action.

Eve is small (due to travel capabilities) and needs to be bigger and far far more varied, with places that have some very unusual and interesting features.

Kick Jafit.

TLDR

More nullsec that has no capitals

Yes please

A new frontier - Pubbie 0.0